late luminescence

I dream of metaphors spilling from my unrefined mawand as the stars welcome the illustrious dark encroaching doubts are ushered in, their plus onethe endless drought of frustration i’ve kept at bay all daythat has left me withered and thirstya bottomless well of emptyreservoirs of tears dried upuntil i can...

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hiraetha house that once was home& a family that never truly wasa castle fit for the happiest peoplejust a facade, now reduced toan empty wooden chestnot a soul in sightinside, walking bodiesshattered stained glassof a brother & father,a mother & daughterbut a traitor's escapelocked the prison gateand threw...

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Lives and experiences are soft orbs of water flowing between palms,the soft murmur of lovely description scrunching between toes,the lightning of raw truthcondensing into the same lettersas the rigid flexibility of plotweaving so seamlessthey don't realize they're cryingtil the tears have blotted the page the pure pride radiatingheart...

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a fallen angelbroken wings folded around the shardsof the hell that clung to her emerging scalesshe plummeted toward the earthand you didn’t careso she pummelled the groundand you let the ground pummell herthe once brilliant feathers so white you saw rainbowsdyed by the ink of tearsshe wasn’t supposed to...

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There is a girlAs white light streams through half closed shuttersand the morning silence prods me awakefar, far too early my palms tell the skyas i reach for my brain, somewhere still in dreamland cloudswelp, my fault for allowingthe morning in before noonthe silence fills my ears, and...

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A boy and a girl, together, (oh it couldn't ever be friendship, no, it is of course good-natured teasing & popcorn fights & midnight cuddling & pillow kisses, which of course leads to scattered shattered heart shards lining their brows and so these) whispers in the dark blaringly...

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Cold silver jewels / scraping down my face / no clear reason at all /or maybe every one of the infinite reasons the world gives us to mourn / collecting rainbow-less drops overflowing in cupped hands / splayed out on the bed / brittle laughs broken / the...

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Summer heat has hitcurdling languishing laughterinto a relentless aura of inward hostilityHuffs and annoyed sighs between words shaved down to the bonethe vain sun's long gonebut the heat has seeped into the floorboardslike poison ivy creeping up dinner chairsslipping in the pulsing veins on my necksucking all the love...

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photo: Baker Beach, CABirds outside making quite a ruckusseems louder in the broken silenceshifting sheets and clacking keysI could swear their gossiping about mealthough, I would say I'm going rather crazyafter all, I had an enlightening conversationwith my jeans the other dayLying in bed rather uncomfortablystuck between the...

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The shower's startingthick globs of thin paintcrashing over one anotherto douse the canvas whitescrubbing off the daylike dead skin cells down the drainuntil I bleed The shower's sprayingcrimson streaks and bar soapgulping down warm aromasof someone's else's dinnerI've already refused to eatfreedom in the vaporwater, just another layerfor a...

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A dragon wrapped around the hiltI can still feel the coil of its tailwrapped around my wristReady to pounce at any secondcrimson rubies poised to spill from her mawas it grasps her prey in black talonsopal scales layeredone on top of anothersilver, because gold wastoo traumatic for herand...

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White light leaves nothing to the imaginationbright reflected upon satiny curtainsthe color is a shade of horrid, the attempt at gold, shabbybut at least they keep out the inky nighta brother on the couch yondera sister rocking on the one over herefor once, not arguing about ice creameyes attentively...

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